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title: דָּלִית — branch · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּלִית (1808), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: branch. BDB 1906: n.f. branch, bough. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּלִית

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«דָּלִית» in the Tanakh dictionary: **branch** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 1808 · **BDB:** דָּלִיּוֹת

### Glosses

branches (4); its.branches (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

branch [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1808/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. branch, bough [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1808/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** pl. of \[דָּלִית\] n.f. branch, bough, metaph. of Israel under figure of olive tree דָּֽלִיּוֹתָיו Je 11:16 Ez 17:6, 7 (figure of vine); v 23 (under figure of cedar); 31:7, 9, 12 of Asshur as a cedar, דָּלִיֹּתָיו Ez 19:11 Isr. as a vine (cf. Löw65).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּלִית» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1808/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 31:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.7/)

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וַיְּיִ֣ף בְּגָדְל֔וֹ בְּאֹ֖רֶךְ דָּֽלִיּוֹתָ֑יו כִּֽי־הָיָ֥ה שָׁרְשׁ֖וֹ אֶל־מַ֥יִם רַבִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.beautiful in greatness its in the.length its.branches his (dm) it.was root its to waters many

*JPS 1917:* Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

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[Ezekiel 31:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.9/)

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יָפֶ֣ה עֲשִׂיתִ֔יו בְּרֹ֖ב דָּֽלִיּוֹתָ֑יו וַיְקַנְאֻ֙הוּ֙ כָּל־עֲצֵי־עֵ֔דֶן אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּגַ֥ן הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* beautiful I made.it in the.abundance its.branches his and they envied.it all the.trees of.Eden which \[were\].in the.garden of.(the) God

*JPS 1917:* I made it fair by the multitude of its branches; so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

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